We finished our Spirit House!

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We finished our Spirit House!

  Today – finally – after one whole year, we erected the traditional Thai “Spirit House” (ศาลพระภูมิ) for the local Guardian Spirit of the Land (เจ้าที่เจ้าทาง)​. The spirit house is

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Essay: On the personhood of plants

Estimated reading time: 30 min. On the personhood of plants …and our relationship with them David B Lauterwasser “Here I stand in awe, deeply moved by the sheer beauty you

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A response to a “viral” video about aero/hydroponics

The Facebook page “NowThis” posted this video: https://www.facebook.com/NowThisNews/videos/1384836634939790/ This is our response: “Completely controlled environment”… ‘Civilized’ humans and their insatiable need to control and dominate Nature. Growing plants like this

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Essay: What Does the World Dream?

Today’s long read: Ramon Elani gives us a great introduction to poet Robinson Jeffers’ works, who draws the correct conclusions as to what our place in this universe is and

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Article: Plants Know They Are Being Eaten

The Business Insider(?) writes about a topic which concerns us a lot: seeing plants as beings, equal but different to ourselves. Again, science found out what primitive animists have known

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Essay: Weep for the Forests of Death

“In our modern times of concrete cities and sanitized environments we have forgotten the wild gods, the hunter’s gods, the green gods. The city dwellers see nature as perfect, beautiful,

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